Columbine Quotes

“True love is like little roses,
sweet, fragrant in small doses.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine

“Don't let your character change color with your environment. Find out who you are and let it stay its true color.”
― Rachel Scott

“A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.”
― Beth Nimmo, Rachel's Tears: The Spiritual Journey of Columbine Martyr Rachel Scott

“I don't get as much fan mail as an actor or singer would, but when I get a letter 99% of the time it's pointing out something that really had an impact. Like after 'My Own Private Rodeo' all these people wrote to me and said Dale's dad inspired them to come out. And this was when it was still illegal to be gay in Texas and a few other states. Another one that really stuck with me was this girl who survived Columbine. See, "Wings of the Dope," the episode where Luanne's boyfriend comes back as an angel, aired two weeks after the shooting. About a month after that, I got a letter from a girl who was there and hid somewhere in the school when it was all going on. She said the first thing she was gonna do if she survived was tell a friend of hers she was in love with him. She never did. He ended up being one of the kids responsible for it. So you can imagine how - you know, to her, it felt wrong to grieve almost, and she bottled it up. But she saw that episode and Buckley walking away at the end and something just let her finally break down and greive and miss the guy. I remember she quoted Luanne - 'I wonder if he's guardianing some other girl,' or something along that line, because she never had the guts to tell the kid. That really gets to people at Comic Con.”
― Mike Judge

“These are the hands of Rachel Joy Scott and one day, will touch millions of people's hearts.”
― Rachel Scott

“I don't do 'black music,' I don't do 'white music'...I make fight music, for high school kids.”
― Eminem

“This will be my last year, Lord. I have gotten what I can. Thank You.”
― Beth Nimmo, Rachel's Tears: The Spiritual Journey of Columbine Martyr Rachel Scott

“Reverend Don Marxhausen disagreed with all the riffs on Satan. He saw two boys with hate in their eyes and assault weapons in their hands. He saw a society that needed to figure out how and why - fast. Blaming Satan was just letting them off easy, he felt, and copping out on our responsibility to investigate. The "end of days" fantasy was even more infuriating.”
― Dave Cullen, Columbine

“Love knows no barriers, no distance.
It makes you dance as if in a trance,
And catches you up when you are down.
It makes you draw a smile from a frown,
And embarks you in a river when you fall,
And most of its grace, it embraces us all!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine

“I write not for the sake of glory. Not for the sake of fame. Not of the sake of success. But for the sake of my soul.”
― Rachel Scott

“cause we don't hide,
We parade our pride!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine

“A place in the sun, that's what I am aiming for... and who could ever ask for more?' -Columbine to Pierrot”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine

“Off Spruce, there was a little known trail. A savage gulley wound through acreage of older residential homes that met up with Green Rock Drive. A natural bouquet gust of wind assaulted me. The domestic and native encroached on each other in a battle for dominance at the edges of the cramped path's undergrowth. The tangy scent of wild onion and sagebrush intermingled with the verdant odor of wild geranium, blue flax, columbine and creeping pussytoes. The wild weeds spiced up the encroaching grass turf and the tamed floral honeysuckle vines and lilac bushes.”
― Jazz Feylynn, Colorado State of Mind

“Viver só de aparência mostra é muita carência!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbina (Amor de Pierrot Livro 1)

“Assim como a lua,
Que mostra apenas uma face,
Sou sua cara metade.
A vida nua e crua,
Requer um impasse,
Repleto de meias verdades'.- Pierrot a Columbina”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbina (Amor de Pierrot Livro 1)

“Do you think the Y2K thing is going to mess everything up? Katie asked.
"I don't know. I think everything's already messed up after Columbine. Like, what kind of world do we live in if you can get shot up in your high school?"
"That was horrible. But I think it's kind of a one-time thing. People won't stand for that kind of tragedy to keep happening.”
― Sara Farizan, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages

“Frozen was her heart after he had decided to leave her to live in Venice.

"I will have my own Carnival here then", she said. So she put on her white boots and her coat filled with jewelry, danced on the snow all alone. A wolf saw her magnificent beauty.

He jumped right in front of her. It was not a wolf after all but a gentleman wearing fur. He took her hand and they both slid in a split second. It was too enchanting a dream.

All of a sudden the whole scene became blurry. The blonde woke up with the deep sensation that it all looked too real not to be true!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine

“I want to be your Columbine,
And make your dreams mine.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine

“If the portrayal of Dylan as a monster left the impression that the tragedy at Columbine had no relevance to average people or their families, then whatever measure of comfort it offered was false. I hope the truth will awake people to a greater sense of vulnerability—more frightening, perhaps, but crucial—that cannot so easily be circumscribed.”
― Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

“I'm a light bearer dressed in a sleep wear.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine

“Was he evil? I've spent a lot of time wrestling with that question. In the end, I don't think he was. Most people believe suicide is a choice, and violence is a choice; those things are under a person's control. Yet we know from talking to survivors of suicide attempts that their decision-making ability shifts in some way we don't well understand. In our conversation, psychologist and suicide researcher Dr. Matthew Nock at Harvard used a phrase I like very much: dysfunction in decision making. If suicide seems like the only way out of an existence so painful it has become intolerable, is that really an exercise of free will?
Of course, Dylan did not simply die by suicide. He committed murder; he killed people. We've all felt angry enough to fantasize about killing someone else. What allows the vast majority of us to feel appalled and frightened by the mere impulse, and another person to go through with it? If someone chooses to hurt others, what governs the ability to make that choice? If what we think of as evil is really the absence of conscience, then we have to ask, how is it a person ceases to connect with their conscience?”
― Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy